Subject: [AUDITORY] CfP: Dissonant Loves - The Conviviality of Contemporary Sound Diasporas From: Vincent Meelberg <00000085e4d42aca-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 13:24:41 +0100Dissonant Loves: The Conviviality of Contemporary Sound Diasporas=20 We are seeking contributors to an upcoming edited volume to be published = by Routledge. The contents of the book are to be framed around the = living transmission of diaspora through sound in (speech, everyday life, = media, computation, music, history) over diverse spaces and times = drawing upon cases from around the globe. The intention of the book is = not simply to map these formations but to evaluate the resources they = provide as convivial formations =E2=80=93 in the context of reconfigured = global capitalism, augmented nationalism and racism, and sound=E2=80=99s = uneven capture in computation. The volume aspires to incorporate a wide = range of voices, their hopes, fears and living realities. The book will = be culturally focussed whilst not disregarding the materialities of = sound. We welcome interest from anthropologists, sociologists, = geographers, historians, ethnomusicologists, cultural theorists and = others with an interest in the multiplicity of ways in which diasporic = sound cultures are transmitted and lived. In doing so the volume will = move away from a sonic eurocentricism that until recently has dominated = sonic epistemologies and contribute to a critical re-appraisal of the = role of sound in contemporary global modernity.=20 We are interested in both full-length chapters (up to 8,000 words in = length) as well as shorter, more impressionistic pieces (up to 1,000 = words in length) which will be interspersed throughout the volume. We = also expect to provide a website with sonic examples/podcasts to = accompany the book.=20 Expressions of interest, about a paragraph long, can be emailed to the = two editors of the book M.Bull@xxxxxxxx and = Malcolm.James@xxxxxxxx preferably by the end of March 2021. Michael Bull is Professor of Sound Studies at the University of Sussex. = He is co-founder and editor of the journal Senses and Society = (Routledge), founding editor of Sound Studies: An Interdisciplinary = Journal (Routledge), series editor for the book series The Study of = Sound (Bloomsbury) and Sound in Urban and Popular Culture (Routledge). = He has recently published the monograph Sirens (Bloomsbury 2020) and has = co-edited (with Marcel Cobussen) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic = Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2020).=20 Malcolm James is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, and = Associate Director of Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies at the = University of Sussex. He is author of the books Sonic Intimacy: Reggae = Sound Systems, Jungle Pirate Radio and Grime YouTube Music Videos = (Bloomsbury 2020), Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural = Transformation (Palgrave 2015), and co-editor of Regeneration Songs: = Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London (Repeater Books 2018). =20